Had nothing to do with the 90% off price on Steam, I’m sure.
Seeing a bad movie makes you nostalgic for the game, it makes sense
Not even seeing the movie, just media talking about it catches people’s attention.
2 > 1 > 3 > TPS
Are the 3rd and TPS that bad? I’m a massive fan of the first 2
I agree with this order. TPS is a slog. It is almost entirely comprised of traveling across the map and then traveling back the way you came except everything just respawned. Over and over again.
The 3rd game makes item drops boring. ‘Legendary’ gear is ludicrously common which makes anything sub-Legendary pointless. There’s no excitement when a legendary item drops because they always drop. The story also does not compare with the second, which was awesome, or even the first, which was pretty good.
Borderlands 2 also has a pretty good VR port that I highly recommend.
I agree with the 2>1>3>TPS, however
While there are many things to enjoy in borderlands 2, some of the design choices are so questionable to me.
The splitting of backpack space with bank space and giving ‘a little more’ between the two felt horrible when compared to just having up to 72 backpack slots from the first game, which was compounded by the added slag element, enemies using the good strength/weakness body type from the armory of general Knox dlc from bl1, and horrible ammo economy for nearly all weapons.
They removed the entire guardian series of legendary weapons and most forms of ammo regen from class mods, making it either mandatory to run multiple weapon types with no class supports (generally each character has 2 supported types), playing (with) salvador, or enjoying the shopping interface quite often. The extra ammo spending weapons really didn’t help this at all.
Aside from a few other smaller picks, these generally made the gameplay less enjoyable than the first for me, but the story, enemies (especially bosses), and locations/lore were leagues better than the first. I’m split on the dlcs, but both games did have at least one great dlc.
I have had this game on EGS for I don’t even remember how long since they gave it away for free. Never actually played it because my brother, who is the biggest Borderlands fan I know, says it’s absolute fucking garbage.
I bet it’s still better than the movie, though.
It’s the worst of the mainline games story-wise, for sure. The mechanics are fine.
Forget story and mechanics. How’s the humour? That’s the core of Borderlands.
Not good.
I did an all achivs marathon of 1,2 and 3. 3 was such a damn slog that I couldn’t bring myself to play pre sequel. The characters were all given so much extra cringe in an unenjoyable way. Ava and the twins are particularly bad to the point that they make god of war’s rebellious phase atreus pleasant. I should have played pre sequel before, but I didn’t have it so I went on to 3 and I think I’ll be fine never playing a borderlands game again.
The previews made the movie look nonsensical and confusing.
From the reviews I’ve seen (Outside Xbox), that’s the most you’ll get out of it. It’s mostly a nothing burger, “bad” is the best thing you can say about it.
